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From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Booting Release 0.1
Message-ID: <1992Jul20.123922.18416@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 20 Jul 92 12:39:22 GMT
References: <1992Jul17.144508.141852@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de> <1992Jul17.165819.12985@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <1472vtINNkqu@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
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In article <1472vtINNkqu@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>In article <1992Jul17.165819.12985@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
>
[many comments on the nice new release deleted]
>>Installation was incredibly smooth. Kudos to whomever was involved in writing
>>the 'install' program. Installation and extraction are practically effortless.
>
>Lynne did the installation mechanism, based on the (loud) suggestions of
>a number of people who insisted on *not* wanting to write new disktab entries.
>
I must agree that the new installation program is very nice, however in
some ways it seems to have outsmarted itself. As I posted in a previous
message, I was installing over release 0.0. Despite having reformatted the
hard disk as recommended, I was unable to boot off the hard disk until I
wrote a new disklabel with a proper disktab. I had to use a release0.0
boot floppy to perform this chore, even the FixIt disk failed, claiming the
hd fs was "read only". The whole problem boiled down to the old release
having "sf" in the disklabel for the bad sector table. THe install program
correctly identified my Connor CP2064 IDE drive, but failed to remove the
badsector flag from the old disklabel entry when it installed the system.
Even after an fdisk /mbr and reformat under DOS 5.0, the install program
still thought release0.0 was on the hd. Now if there was just some way to
make a bunch of floppies out of the 200 odd cpio files for
{bin,src,etc}dist ;-)
Mike
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